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Motivate has integrated Apple Pay into its award-winning mobile bike share application the company announced today. The feature is available New York for the Citi Bike app, San Francisco Bay Area’s Ford GoBike program, the Boston area’s Hubway and the D.C. area’s Capital Bikeshare. “Apple Pay makes it faster and easier for people to get […]

Ford GoBike launched June 28 and is now live in the East Bay, bringing bike share to that region for the first time, as well as San Jose and San Francisco. There are now over 125 stations throughout the region with new ones coming online daily. The program is transforming what was a 700 bike […]

Bike share is a powerful way to create access to opportunity– not only by connecting people more quickly to transit and to local business districts, but also by connecting them to great jobs. We are proud of our our track record on both fronts. We hire people who hail from the communities we serve, pay […]

It’s June, and you know what that means: sunny morning rides, stunning evening views, exciting summer expansions and best of all…PRIDE MONTH. At Motivate, we love Pride. It’s a chance to celebrate so many of our extraordinary riders, as well as the rich diversity that defines our company and the vibrant cities we serve. That’s […]

Officials from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), Ford Motor Company and Motivate today announced that the San Francisco Bay Area’s eagerly anticipated regional bike share network will launch June 28th. The new Ford GoBike program represents a ten-fold expansion — from 700 bikes to 7,000 —beyond the existing pilot program known as Bay Area Bike Share. […]

No city celebrates Bike to Work Day quite like San Francisco. Our CEO, Jay H. Walder had the honor of riding alongside San Francisco Mayor Lee to the rally at City Hall on the new Ford GoBike bicycles, which are soon to fill the streets of the City by the Bay. By the end of this […]

As the global leader in bike share, we are deeply committed to making bike share an integral and equitable component of urban transportation networks. We believe that commitment starts from before day one. By thoughtfully engaging local residents and business owners in the design of the bike share network, we can ensure that bike share […]

Seasons greetings, friends. Please join us in taking a look back at our busy, joyful and bike-filled 2016! Here are some of the happiest and funniest (and a few of the strangest) things that happened this past year. Here’s to many more smiles and many more miles together in the year ahead!

Motivate’s bike share program in the Bay Area is making progress in a massive system planning effort in advance of expanding the program there tenfold beginning in 2017. The new and expanded program will be dubbed Ford GoBike thanks to a groundbreaking partnership between Motivate and Ford. Recently the Bay Area team released a map showing […]

From Boston to the Bay Area, our systems are expanding fast and furiously. Here’s a rundown: Thanks to our partnership with Ford, the Bay Area Bike Share, soon to be renamed Ford GoBike, is set to expand ten-fold, from 700 to 7,000 bikes. We also won the contract to continue to operate Capital Bikeshare after […]